Re: Installing from CDROM via PCMCIA

From: Jef Spaleta <jspaleta princeton edu>

To: phoebe-list redhat com

Subject: Re: Installing from CDROM via PCMCIA

Date: 07 Mar 2003 09:04:42 -0500

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 06:08, Brian McGurk wrote:
> Any advice on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.
>
Not sure if this applies..since you didn't say if you are using a floppy
bootdisk (but even if you aren't...this floppy bootdisk method might be
yer solution)
From the release notes:
Installation-Related Notes Section
While most present-day computers are able to start the installation
process by booting directly from the first Red Hat Linux distribution
CD, some hardware configurations require the use of a boot diskette.
If your hardware requires a boot diskette, you should be aware of the
following change.
Red Hat Linux 8.0.94 uses a different boot diskette layout than
previous releases of Red Hat Linux. There is now a single boot
diskette image file (bootdisk.img) that is used to boot all systems
requiring a boot diskette.
If you are performing anything other than an installation from an IDE
or USB device, you will be asked to insert a driver diskette created
from one of the following image files:
- drvnet.img - For network installations
- drvblock.img - For SCSI installations
- pcmciadd.img - For PCMCIA installations
As with previous releases of Red Hat Linux, these image files can be
found in the images/ directory on the first installation CD.
-jef

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